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A Grander Canyon: Newest national monument designated this week in Arizona
President Biden designates Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument to protect nearly one million acres of this idyllic landscape from future mining. For over a decade, TU has been working to protect the greater Grand Canyon region from future uranium mining. Earlier this week, President Biden announced the…
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Trout Creek Project Restores Brook Trout Infrastructure in the Upper Peninsula
Upper Peninsula outdoor TV show “Discovering” features TU brook trout restoration project. In the heart of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Kristen Ojaniemi cast a spinner into a pool on Trout Creek and reeled in its namesake, a native brook trout. Trout Creek is located in Ontonagon County in the Ottawa National Forest and in Trout Unlimited’s…
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Trout in the Suburbs
Michigan habitat work transforms stream in southeast corner of the state into a trout haven for a big population center.
Paint Creek restoration highlights chapter partnership potential in metro Detroit. “It’s hard to believe there’s a trout stream 10 feet from this road,” remarked Joe Bruce, conservation committee chair for the Vanguard Chapter of Trout Unlimited. “It’s pretty unique.” We stood at a crosswalk waiting for heavy traffic crossing a bridge over Paint Creek in…
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BLM proposes saving the best of the West through oil and gas leasing reform
Comments are needed through September 22nd to help bring balance back to public lands Across the West, 73 percent of the remaining native trout habitat is located in watersheds on public lands. Native trout were once abundant across the country, however more than 50 percent of trout populations have been widely extirpated from their historical…
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The Fight for Bristol Bay Continues
Lawsuit by the State of Alaska threatens Clean Water Act protections. Earlier this year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finalized Clean Water Act safeguards for the headwaters of Bristol Bay. These safeguards established a prohibition and restriction on mine waste discharge in the Pebble deposit area in the headwaters of Bristol Bay. This win was…
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A Monumental Win for Fishing and Hunting
New report details how National Monuments support access, opportunity and economy of hunting and fishing. In a new report, National Monuments: A Hunting and Fishing Perspective, 25 groups and businesses – championed by Trout Unlimited, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers and the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership – evaluated hunting and fishing opportunity, as well as the…
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A New Video Celebrates an Ambitious Restoration Project on the Wallowa River
Northeast Oregon landowners partner with TU to restore salmon and steelhead habitat. Ian Wilson is a dedicated angler, a fisheries biologist and a restoration project manager for the Grande Ronde Model Watershed. His wife Heidi is a dedicated conservationist who works for the local Wallowa Land Trust. They are the fifth generation to live on…
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